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Senior Product Engineer - Payments Team

WeTravel· Engineering & Product
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Hybrid (Amsterdam)Full-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Senior payments-focused engineer leading critical projects across collection, disbursement, FX, reconciliation, and a new card issuing stack within WeTravel’s Payments team.

Responsibilities

  • Lead payments projects end-to-end: discovery with Product and PayOps teams, integration design with PSPs, build, rollout, monitoring, and incident response.
  • Partner with the Product team to gain insight into organizer and traveler challenges, building payment solutions that successfully process transactions.
  • Own the reliability of our payments system
  • Contribute to WeTravel’s engineering practices and excellence.

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of product engineering expertise, with 4+ years dedicated to architecting complex payments systems.
  • Proven track record within a PSP, acquirer, gateway, or a high-scale platform payments team.
  • Broad practical expertise in deploying and troubleshooting production-level integrations across various PSPs, card acquirer ecosystems, and diverse payment rails. Deep expertise in settlement processes, reconciliation, dispute management, 3DS2 protocols, webhook management, and PCI compliance frameworks, including tokenization methods.
  • Strong backend mastery in Ruby on Rails, Kotlin, Python, Go, Java, or Node.js with the agility to ramp up on Ruby quickly.
  • Full-stack comfort: ability to build the React interface for the payment flows you architect.
  • Deep expertise in architecting robust, resilient distributed systems, including double-entry ledgers, automated reconciliation pipelines, money movement state machines, idempotency, exactly-once semantics, event-driven architectures, webhooks, and reliable consumer patterns.
  • Direct production on-call experience, including authoring post-mortems and leading incident response.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including cross-functional collaboration in a distributed, multicultural environment.
  • Pragmatic adoption of AI tools to optimize engineering workflow, including mentoring others on AI concepts.

Skills

Required:Payments architectureBackend developmentFull-stack capabilitiesDistributed systemsOn-call incident management

Benefits

  • Competitive salary
  • Generous "Time to Recharge" policy - unlimited paid time off
  • Work From Anywhere up to four weeks per calendar year
  • 2-week cross-functional onboarding program
  • Annual team off-site
  • Cycle-to-work scheme or commuting reimbursement
  • Monday/Thursday team lunches and after-work social events
  • Extensive paid family leave
  • Three paid volunteer days per year
  • Cutting-edge equipment and tools
  • International, travel-loving team
  • Access to Booking Marketplace with exclusive discounts
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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